Ponte San Michele Bridge Lighting, Italy

Work whilst at Foster + Partners

The lighting strategy aims to create a unique, memorable, pleasant, and safe experience for the visitors and locals alike. Lighting is designed to add value by creating a thriving space for the community and visitors, at the same time ensuring that there is minimal impact to the nocturnal ecology.

It is a riveted wrought/cast-iron truss arch, currently carrying a single road lane and a single rail track on two levels; protected as a monument of industrial archaeology by the regional heritage authority since the 1980s. Ponte San Michele (Paderno d’Adda–Calusco d’Adda) is a significant local amenity and the lighting scheme has been designed to help foster the pedestrian & cycling connections and reconnect it to the surroundings.

Architect: Foster + Partners

Client: Confidential